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The book of the heart
Literature, Medieval
Metaphor
Art, Modern
Medieval Literature
Heart
Literature
Religious aspects
Christianity
History and criticism
History
"Eric Jager traces the history and psychology of the self-as-text concept from antiquity to the modern day, discussing writers from Plato, Augustine, and Dante to Shakespeare, Locke, and Freud. He focuses especially on the Middle Ages, when the metaphor of a "book of the heart" modeled on the manusc…
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